I’m not saying that the hospital is innocent. I am saying that we have to consider all possibilities until the facts are known. All we have is an obese mom who wanted a quick fix for her obese daughter, marching around wearing a t-shirt with her dead daughter’s picture on it. Based on my observations of the family, it is not a stretch to think that they might be culpable. If the hospital is at fault, I hope the family sues.
The mother brought her daughter to a pediatrician who referred her to an ear, nose, and throat specialist (a surgeon). If a patient is deemed a candidate at all for a particular type of surgery, of course a surgeon will tell the patient that surgery is the best option.
I’ve had to deal with many surgeons. We lost my father to what turned out to be an unnecessary cancer-related surgery. (One surgeon insisted it was necessary. Afterward others said it probably wasn’t.)
I am lucky to have found surgeons I trust completely.
I don’t know why anyone dislikes the mother so much. I don’t know the woman, but my heart goes out to her and the rest of the family. I have been in the desperate position of trying to “save” a family member when something happened that shouldn’t have happened at a hospital.